Hi, On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:34 +0000, Chris Picton wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:09:21 +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Is GFS2 not production-ready due to lack of testing, or due to > >> >> known bugs? > >> >> > >> >> Any advice would be appreciated > >> >> > >> >> Chris > >> >> > >> >> > > The answer is a bit of both. We are getting to the stage where the known > > bugs are mostly solved or will be very shortly. You can see the state of > > the bug list at any time by going to bugzilla.redhat.com and looking for > > any bug with gfs2 in the summary line. There are currently approx 70 > > such bugs, but please bear in mind that a large number of these are > > asking for new features, and some of them are duplicates of the same bug > > across different versions of RHEL and/or Fedora. > > > > We are currently at a stage where having a large number of people > > helping us in testing would be very helpful. If you have your own > > favourite filesystem test, or if you are in a position to run a test > > application, then we would be very interested in any reports of > > success/failure. > > Thank you for the update. > > I assume that if things go according to plan, we wont see a supported > gfs2 in 5.2, but probably will in 5.3? > That is quite likely, yes. > I, oddly enough, currently have a situation where running some bonnie++ > tests causes machines to hang using gfs, but not gfs2. I will file a bug > report when I can. > > > Chris > Ok, all such information is useful. Thanks, Steve. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
